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Monday, September 28, 2009

Ten of the best green stories in literature

At the Guardian, John Mullan named ten of the best green stories in literature.One novel on his list:

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

To make us green, novelists have invented dystopias. Atwood's is one of the most recent and most powerful, and describes the world after a catastrophe wrought by genetic engineering and global warming. Our dreams of progress produce apocalypse.